This book is one of my all time favorite reads. I'd been putting it off for awhile, thinking it would be rather dry but wanting to know what de Cleyre had to say. Big surprise - I thoroughly enjoyed almost every chapter. This is a book of essays and lectures the author wrote and delivered during the early 20th century. I'm very intrigued by the idea of anarchy but don't have any background or knowledge to help me with this topic. This book cleared up a lot of basic questions for me, in what I found to be a very simple and clear explanation of many issues. She addresses issues of marriage, sexuality, feminism, violence, majority rule and others. There is also a good chapter wherein she defends Emma Goldman, altho she does not see eye-to-eye with Goldman. It is very helpful to see their two perspectives compared and analyzed. de Dleyre also addressed methods of change in society, asking if education is enough, if violence necessary. This is indeed a classic volume on anarchy and I expect to return to it. I recommend this to anyone who has any interest in any of these issues. It is VERY readable, unlike some writing on the topic. ( )